{"id":419415,"date":"2026-07-31T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419415\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:40:36","slug":"fire-near-auberry-road-prompts-evacuations-in-fresno-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419415\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire near Auberry Road prompts evacuations in Fresno County"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Raleigh Fire as of 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 29, 2026, spanned across 15 near Auberry Road in Fresno County.<\/p>\n

ALERTCalifornia<\/p>\n

A wildfire off of Auberry Road in the eastern Fresno County football prompted evacuations Wednesday afteroon.<\/p>\n

Cal Fire says the blaze, known as the Raleigh Fire, began Wednesday afternoon and spanned across 15 acres.<\/p>\n

Evacuation orders were issued around 3:15 p.m. and were later downgraded to evacuation warnings around 5 p.m., Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesperson Tony Botti.<\/p>\n

Initially, deputies made door-to-door evacuations while firefighters worked to contain the fire, Botti said.<\/p>\n

Auberry Road was closed between Highway 168 and SJ&E Road.<\/p>\n

You can view the evacuation map here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"The The Raleigh Fire as of 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 29, 2026, spanned across 15 near Auberry Road in Fresno County. ALERTCalifornia <\/p>\n

This story was originally published July 29, 2026 at 3:48 PM.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
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Nick Fenley<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n

Nick Fenley is a reporter covering education, lawsuits, breaking news and more for The Fresno Bee. He\u2019s originally from the Imperial Valley and has been with The Bee since 2025.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raleigh Fire as of 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 29, 2026, spanned across 15 near Auberry Road in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-419415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}